"to £40 million each year, and affecting every ITV plc regional company with the exception of ITV London, ITV Wales and ITV Granada. These changes were implemented in early 2009. All sub-regional news programmes ceased, ITV Border's ""Lookaround"" programme was merged with ITV Tyne Tees' ""North East Tonight"" programme, ITV Westcountry's ""Westcountry Live"" merged with ITV West's ""The West Tonight"" programme, and ITV Meridian's ""Meridian Tonight"" south and south east editions merged with ITV Thames Valley's ""Thames Valley Tonight"". On 16 September 2013 ITV reverted to a more localised system, as was the case prior to a shake-up in 2009,"
"rising commercial pressures. Announcing a £250,000 fund for an investigative journalism training scheme, Channel Four said in November 2011 that there had been a decline in the pool of investigative journalism since ""the demise of training grounds such as ""World in Action""""."" ""World in Action"" was the pre-eminent current affairs programme produced by Britain's ITV Network in its first 50 years. Along with ""This Week"", ""Weekend World"", ""TV Eye"", ""First Tuesday"", ""The Big Story"" and ""The Cook Report"" – and the news-gathering of ITN – ""World in Action"" gave ITV a reputation for quality broadcast journalism to rival the BBC's"
"controls several other leading companies, including Lime Pictures, formerly Mersey Television, makers of ""Hollyoaks"". It is run by Steve Morrison, a former ""WIA"" producer. Although in its early days ""World in Action"" was reputed never to employ anyone who was on first-name terms with any politician, a number of subsequent British parliamentarians have ""World in Action"" on their curricula vitae. The most recent is the Conservative MP Adam Holloway, elected to the House of Commons in 2005. The former British cabinet minister Jack Straw worked on ""World in Action"" as a researcher, as did Margaret Beckett who served as Tony"
"""World in Action"" for many years as a producer-director and executive. Long-time ""World in Action"" alumni who went on to direct and produce Granada's international award-winning ""Disappearing World"" films include Brian Moser, its instigator and original producer, and Charlie Nairn. Among the more recent generation of film-makers to emerge from ""World in Action"" were Alex Holmes, who became editor of the BBC2 documentary strand ""Modern Times"" and went on to write and direct the Bafta-winning dramatised documentary series ""Dunkirk"" for the BBC and ""House of Saddam"" for the BBC and HBO; and the late Katy Jones, a former ""WIA"" producer"
"and owner of Ipswich Town F.C., Marcus Evans. Evans's company had been looking to get involved with television and film production for a number of years beforehand, and in 2010 set up its own production operation, Marcus Evans Entertainment. ITV plc announced in May 2017 that they took over World Productions. As a result of the deal, World Productions shall become a unit of ITV Studios and ITV Studios Global Entertainment shall distribute all future series internationally. In 2018, the series Bodyguard which World Productions produced, become the most watched TV show in the UK since 2008. Achieving approximately 10.4"
"format ""Holding out for a Hero"", ""Take on the Twisters"" and ""Big Star's Little Star"" for ITV and ""Coach Trip"", ""Celebrity Coach Trip"" and ""Christmas Coach Trip"" for Channel 4. On 5 December 2007, it was announced that ITV had acquired 12 Yard for £35 million. World Productions is a television production company founded on 20 March 1990 by acclaimed producer Tony Garnett and owned by ITV Studios since May 2017. The company's first major series was the police drama ""Between The Lines"" (BBC One, 1992–1994), and throughout the decade they went on to produce a succession of drama series."
"Stuart Prebble Stuart Prebble (born 15 April 1951) is a former CEO of ITV, Granada Sky Broadcasting and of ITV Digital. Prebble was educated at Newcastle University, where he was editor of student newspaper ""The Courier"" and later president of the students' union. After leaving university he was producer and editor of the ""World In Action"" current affairs series and went on to be Head of Factual Programmes at Granada TV and Controller of Factual Programmes for the ITV network. He was nominated for a BAFTA TV Award for Best Factual Series for ""World in Action"". He was promoted to"
"was shown in 2012. Michael Apted directed most episodes; parallel series have also started in the last decade in South Africa, the USA and Russia. More recent current affairs series on other channels, such as the MacIntyre series on BBC and Five, and Channel 4's ""Dispatches"", commissioned by Dorothy Byrne, a former ""WIA"" producer, may be seen as having inherited certain aspects of ""World in Action""'s hard-hitting journalistic style. One of the programme's hallmarks was its willingness to embrace popular culture, at a time when its competitors preferred a more highbrow approach. One of the very earliest editions reported on"
"World Productions World Productions is a British television production company, founded on 20 March 1990 by acclaimed producer Tony Garnett, and owned by ITV plc following a takeover in 2017. The company's first major series was the police drama ""Between The Lines"" (BBC1, 1992–94), and throughout the decade they went on to produce a succession of drama series. The most notable of these include ""This Life"" (BBC2, 1996–97), about a group of young law students in London; vampire-based thriller ""Ultraviolet"" (Channel 4, 1998); and a police series for the BBC, ""The Cops"" (BBC2, 1998–99), which was so controversial in its"
"Gus Macdonald, David Boulton, Brian Lapping, Ray Fitzwalter, Allan Segal, David Cresswell, Stuart Prebble, Nick Hayes, Dianne Nelmes, Charles Tremayne, Steve Boulton and Jeff Anderson. Anderson also became editor of ""World in Action's"" replacement ""Tonight"", before becoming head of current affairs at ITV in 2006. Mike Lewis, a former ""WIA"" producer, was appointed editor of ""Tonight"" in October 2006. Professor Brian Winston, Pro-Vice Chancellor (External Relations) at the University of Lincoln, who has also held leading posts at the Universities of Westminster, Cardiff, Pennsylvania State and New York, was a researcher and producer in the early series of ""World in"
"The World in Action The World in Action (aka World in Action) was a monthly series of propaganda films from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), created to boost morale and show the Allied war effort during the Second World War. The series was inspired by the success of the NFB's ""Canada Carries On"" series. Patterned after the popular American ""March of Time"" newsreels, ""The World in Action"" was designed to appear to a broader international audience than ""Canada Carries On"" . It was distributed internationally by United Artists. ""The World in Action"" series was produced in 35 mm"
"of Duty. As a result of the deal, World Productions is now a part of ITV Studios. ITV plc is divided into two divisions: Through ITV Broadcasting Ltd., ITV plc holds 13 of a total 15 ITV network licences, covering the vast majority of ITV regions across the UK; it holds all licences in England and Wales, and the single one in the Channel Islands and Northern Ireland: ITV plc is also the sole owner of the ITV national breakfast television franchise ITV Breakfast, formerly known as GMTV, which airs and produces ""Good Morning Britain"", and ""Lorraine"". On 18 October"
"later, Birt himself described it as ""one of the iconic moments of the Sixties."" Soon after she became Conservative Party leader, Margaret Thatcher was said to have told the BBC Director General, Sir Ian Trethowan, that she considered ""World in Action"" to consist of ""just a lot of Trotskyists."" Its removal after 35 years was seen by some as part of a general dumbing-down of British television, and of ITV in particular. One commercial TV regulatory official privately characterised the ""Tonight"" programme which replaced it as merely ""fluffy"". Others saw ""World in Action's"" eventual disappearance as the inevitable consequence of"
"in Action"", and eventually became the Director General of the BBC. The rise of Thatcherism and the misery of mass unemployment saw ""WIA"" examining the phenomenon through the eyes of another emerging band, UB40, in ""A Statistic, A Reminder"" (1981), a line taken from one of the band's songs. Six years later, a special edition of the programme was devoted to the Irish rock band U2 and their charismatic front man Bono. Like The Rolling Stones before them, U2 allowed ""World in Action"" to film one of their classic concerts in 1987 in Ireland. This footage, shot by the future"
"reality programmes now seen on UK TV. Barrie Goulding Barrie Goulding is a UK TV producer who has produced several controversial videos, among them ""Caught In The Act"" and ""Executions"". ""Caught In The Act"" features uncensored CCTV footage of, among other things, armed robberies, drug deals, and coverage of the scandal over the Princess Diana video spy controversy. ""Executions"", as the title suggests, features footage of a number of executions, moreover opening the debate on the Death Penalty. In 1994, Barrie Goulding was responsible for the marketing campaign launching the first of the UK's reality video programmes ""Police Stop!"". This"
"in Action, broadcast on the ITV network on 28 January 1980, alleged that such dominance had in fact been achieved through bribing school officials in order to win lucrative contracts in cities such as Manchester. The Granada investigation also claimed that his company supplied condemned meat that was unfit for human consumption to be used in school dinners. Compilation of the programme began in February 1979 and it alleged illegal share deals involving large cash payments and false documentation. The investigation also claimed how Manchester United had a secret fund for bribing parents of young players the club wished to"
"in Action"", broadcast a blank screen as a protest against the banning. There was some irony in this: the editor of ""World in Action"" was Raymond Fitzwalter who earlier, as deputy news editor of the ""Telegraph & Argus"" in Bradford, had led an investigation into Poulson's activities, which the newspaper published. Eventually, after the film was shown to the ITA, it was transmitted on 30 April 1973, three months late, and under a different title, ""The Rise and Fall of John Poulson"". The 1996 BBC television drama serial ""Our Friends in the North"", written by Peter Flannery, contains a character,"
"-Between The Lines -Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award – Best Drama Series -Between The Lines -Broadcasting Press Guild – Best Drama Series World Productions World Productions is a British television production company, founded on 20 March 1990 by acclaimed producer Tony Garnett, and owned by ITV plc following a takeover in 2017. The company's first major series was the police drama ""Between The Lines"" (BBC1, 1992–94), and throughout the decade they went on to produce a succession of drama series. The most notable of these include ""This Life"" (BBC2, 1996–97), about a group of young law students in London;"
"15 additional territories. Eyeworks UK (formerly At It Productions) is a British TV production company set up in 1997 by Martin Cunning and Chris Fouracre. At It are predominantly linked with youth and entertainment shows (it is a major supplier of music programmes to Channel 4), but over the last three years have branched out into a series of other fields such as medical documentaries and quiz shows. In July 2007, the company was bought by International production group Eyeworks. In April 2014. ITV produced Amazing Greys a co production between ITV Studios & Eyeworks. The company is currently headed"
"Live. Ten Alps listed on the AIM in 2001. Ten Alps Ten Alps Plc () is a UK-based multimedia production company formed of three divisions. Television production falls under four brands: Blakeway, Brook Lapping, Films of Record and Reef TV. The first three produce documentaries and current affairs programmes for global broadcasters- including BBC's Panorama, and Channel 4's Dispatches - as well as popular factual series for outlets such as Channel 5. Reef was acquired in July 2015. Ten Alps Communicate manages a digital cross-platform portfolio which includes major programmes such as Transport for London's Children's Traffic Club, and educational"
"Granada Studios Granada Studios (also known as Quay Street Studios and affectionately as Granadaland) were television studios on Quay Street in Manchester with the facility to broadcast live and recorded programmes. They were the headquarters of Granada Television and later ITV Granada between 1956 and 2013. At the time of their closure, the studios were the oldest operating purpose-built television studios in the United Kingdom. The studios were home to the world's longest-running serial drama, ""Coronation Street"", and other long-running shows such as the quiz show ""University Challenge"" and the current affairs documentary series ""World in Action"". Firsts at the"
"Science in Action (radio programme) Science in Action is a long-running weekly radio programme produced by the BBC World Service and currently hosted by British journalists Roland Pease and Marnie Chesterton, and scientist and broadcaster Professor Adam Hart. It is broadcast on Thursdays at 18.32 GMT and repeated twice the following day, at 01.32 and 08.32. A programme with the title ""Science in Action"" is believed to have begun life in 1964, when it replaced an earlier series, dating from the 1950s, called ""Science and Industry"". From September 1965 a short-lived series called ""Science in Action"" ran on the Home"
"resignation. In 1990 Tremayne became Editor of Regional Features for Granada before becoming an Executive Producer overseeing the long running daytime series, ""This Morning"". In 1993, he returned to ""World in Action"" as its Executive Producer, before taking over all current affairs and documentaries for Granada. In this period, under the leadership of editor Steve Boulton, ""World in Action"" had one of its most well known investigations looking into the financial affairs of Defense Minister, Jonathan Aitken. As a result of the program, Jonathan Aitken accused Granada and the ""Guardian"" newspaper of libel. In the resulting court case, Aitken was"
"Action"". Ray Fitzwalter, ""WIA's"" longest-serving editor and the man behind the ground-breaking Poulson investigations, became a visiting fellow at the University of Salford School of Media, Music and Performance. Gavin MacFadyen, who worked on early series of ""World in Action"" as a producer-director and was best known for his under-cover human rights films, was made a visiting professor at City University in 2005. He is also director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism. David Leigh, who made ""Jonathan of Arabia"", the film which provoked Jonathan Aitken's self-destructive libel action, was made Britain's first professor of reporting at City University, London,"
"BBC, and Lord Macdonald, his fellow ""World in Action"" producer. Many began work as researchers on the World in Action. The Granada Studios Tour opened in 1988 as an entertainment park on the Granada Studios Quay Street back lot, themed around television productions. The park featured a replica set of No. 10 Downing Street, and visitors were shown how television is produced. The main feature was the set of ""Coronation Street"" Several of Granada's programmes administered their websites using G-Wizz, including ""This Morning"", ""Coronation Street"" and ""Emmerdale"". Its Flash-heavy pages were mostly unusable by subscribers, who were then still largely"
"company, which made ""The Death of Yugoslavia"" and many other landmark contemporary history programmes. Stuart Prebble, a former editor of ""World in Action"", runs Liberty Bell, best known for the popular ""Grumpy Old Men"" series on the BBC. Another former editor, Steve Boulton, started an eponymous company, which made ""Young, Nazi & Proud"", a Bafta-winning profile of the young British National Party activist Mark Collett. Simon Albury went on to lead the Campaign for Quality Television and was a founder director of the ITV company Meridian Broadcasting. One of the biggest British independent production companies is All 3 Media, which"
"performance, loudly applauded by those present, caused outrage when ""WIA"" broadcast excerpts, sparking an intense debate about the willingness of British police officers to embrace a diverse culture. The former ""WIA"" editor Steve Boulton revealed during a 2013 ITV documentary about ""World in Action"" that the covert recording had been made by a fellow speaker at the function, the former Liverpool Militant politician Derek Hatton, himself a previous target of a ""World in Action"" investigation. Hatton used a miniature cassette recorder concealed in Boulton's own Filofax. ""World in Action"" employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger; Michael Parkinson; Gordon"
"""World in Action"" filming an official who ""recommended that a company not employ someone because he had the same surname as someone on the blacklist"". In 1986 the League had income from company subscriptions of around £1m, ; following bad publicity, this fell to around £800,000 in 1988 and £660,000 in 1989. In 1990, the House of Commons Select Committee on Employment took evidence from the Economic League about its blacklist. At this time Ford Motor Company, one of the League's largest subscribers and one of its few public supporters, cancelled its subscription. Jack Winder, the former Director of Information"
"International Award in 1995 for best documentary. TVF was described by the ""Hereford Times"" as ""the UK's leading distributor of documentaries."" TVF Media TVF Media is an independent multimedia company, which was founded in 1983 by Hilary Lawson as Television and Film Productions plc. Located in central London, it encompasses areas such as television programming, international distribution, post production, communications for the healthcare and educational sectors, and video art. TVF created a number of award-winning programmes, amongst which was ""The World This Week"", a weekly current-affairs show on Channel 4, and winner of the Gold Award at the New York"
"tins to fish tanks to catch out shoddy builders. The success of the two-part series called ""House of Horrors"", produced by Kate Middleton, led not only to the ITV series ""House of Horrors"" and to the BBC's ""Rogue Traders"" but to a whole new genre of programming, around the world, based around hidden camera footage of dodgy tradesmen. ""World in Action"" also gave rise to a number of other spin-off series, most famously the ""Seven Up!"" documentaries that have followed the lives of a group of British people who turned seven years old in 1963. The most recent, ""56 UP"","
"Current affairs (news format) Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast. This differs from regular news broadcasts that place emphasis on news reports presented for simple presentation as soon as possible, often with a minimum of analysis. It is also different from the news magazine show format, in that the events are discussed immediately. The UK's Office programmes such as ""This World"", ""Panorama"", ""Real Story"", ""BBC Scotland Investigates"", ""Spotlight"", ""Week In Week Out"", and ""Inside"
"the then chairman of Manchester United football club, Louis Edwards. Edwards ran a wholesale butchery business that supplied schools in Manchester; ""WIA"" exposed practices of bribery of council officials and the supply of meat that was unfit for human consumption to such institutions; Edwards' businesses were subsequently prosecuted and lost their contracts. Louis Edwards himself died of a heart attack a month after the show was broadcast. ""World in Action"" tackled the British intelligence services; as well as the British Navy over its recruitment practices: senior navy personnel famously 'door-stepped' the director of the ""World in Action""'s film in question."
"This World (TV series) This World is a current affairs programme which produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Two in the United Kingdom, first airing on 4 January 2004. The programme also airs worldwide occasionally through BBC World News on digital services, satellite and cable in many countries. The series is mainly focused on social issues and current affairs stories around the world. ""This World"" was announced in December 2003 on BBC online and launched in early January 2004, replacing the programme ""Correspondent"". The website includes additional features and a discussion facility for public comment on the programmes."